(Dick/Simmonds/Usher/Boult)
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If you really knew how I felt,
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You wouldn't need to be here asking
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Those questions,
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Those irritating questions, moving in metaphors,
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Speaking in tongues.
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your gunboat diplomacy,
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You accuse me of heresy, of being irreverent,
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My opinions irrelevant, when I smile at your smiles,
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When you're speaking in tongues.
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As we move to a stalemate,
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you say a contract's a contract
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& this is unnegotiable,
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I question your morality, you question my reality
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You're speaking in tongues
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We are speaking in tongues,
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Am I deaf because I cannot comprehend?
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Though I try I just cannot understand.
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Your entrenched opinions,
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On the border of arrogance,
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Dug in against the compromise.
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A position indefensible, your actions illogical
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You're speaking in tongues
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You swear contradictions
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your tedious monologues, wielding authority,
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Demanding subservience, demanding
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I make your sense.
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Demanding speaking in tongues.
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(Dedicated to Rupert Perry, MD EMI UK)
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